27th September 2007 Archive

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Comms: Mobile

• A little more Conversation, to get in on the action Symbian handsets get threaded messaging
• Verizon lifts pro-abortion text message ban Declares 'great respect for this free flow of ideas'

Comms: VoIP

• VoIP says hello to the iPhone Ready to develop, if users want it

Comms: Wireless

• FCC wireless plan torpedoed by Google-loving mega-startup Frontline takes a hardline

Distribution

• Avnet to gobble up Acal Eyes up EMEA market
• Pyramid flies white flag in Microsoft grey market row Parallel import fight settled

Hardware

• Tulip tries to buy back Commodore brand Wants to get back into 'entertainment' products
• Two US computer engineers charged with espionage Seeking to sell chip designs to Chinese military

Hardware: Data Networking

• Cisco borgs call center software maker Latigent Tastes like Web 2.0, chicken
• D-Link switches to green to make more green Everything's gone green

Hardware: Servers

• Code dandy Transitive adds laptop, legacy Solaris/SPARC plays Helping the damned
• Hospital's brand new '£1m' server room goes up in smoke Money's too tight for air-con?

Hardware: Storage

• Oracle teams with Dell, EMC for warehousing Pre-configured hardware/software package gobbles data

Management: Government

• Note to despots: You can't kill the internet Burma's wave of dissent floods through firewall

Management: Law

• Blueberry heir loses libel suit against drunken lothario Gorilla-fisting comment didn't sit well, apparently
• Cambridgeshire letter bomber found guilty Bedroom bomb factory in mother's house
• Federal judge slams Patriot Act Feds push for new, zestier Fourth Amendment

Management: Public Sector

• Lobby group calls for police database access for prisons Hopes to reduce in-custody death toll

Management: Reg Technology Panel

• IT vendors: The good, the bad, and the ugly Reg Technology Panel The industry with no shame

News: Cameras

• BenQ touts skinny, touchy-feely digicam

News: Gadgets and Gizmos

• Sling Media intros simplified Slingbox Pro model comes to UK too

News: Hi-Def

• Sharp rolls out latest Blu-ray recorders Four new models to watch

News: PCs

• Gateway launches iMac-alike all-in-one PC World's cleverest AC adaptor too?

News: PS3

• Hint of next PS3 spied on web FCC website gives tantalising glimpse... sort of

News: Smartphones

• SlingPlayer Mobile released for S60 phones

News: TV

• Sling states SlingCatcher release plan 'Hardware SlingPlayer' due in UK in Q1 2008

News: Xbox

• Foam hinders Halo 3 disc scratching down under MS foam home

News: iPod

• US retailer Target lines up pink iPod Shuffle for charity October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Adopt this dog or we'll kill it The no-nonsense approach to rehoming mutts
• Magazines go online in iTunes-esque move Read all about it in PDF

Odds and Sods: Entertainment

• Brazil braces for TV soap-induced blackout Climax of Tropical Paradise menaces power network

PC Builder

• Hynix leaves DRAM market spotless Falling prices causes memory loss

Reviews: Phones

• Samsung SGH-G600 mobile phone Review All camera and no connectivity?

Science

• Greenland's super-melty summer Ice is sooo last season
• NASA holds vomit-comet docs v robosurgeons trial Bones McCoy jobless before even born

Science: Biology

• Japanese to patent transparent frog Boffins in mutant albino batrachian IP brouhaha

Science: Space

• Dawn on its way to the asteroid belt Lift off, at last
• Space station barney kicks off in India Constructive debate, we're sure

Security

• How to expose Gmail contacts without really trying Onslaught of Google bugs continues

Security: Anti-Virus

• Jailed worm author offered job by victim $133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend

Security: Enterprise Security

• Adobe gifts internal file permissions to unwashed masses Directory traversal shocker

Security: ID

• Canadian privacy commissioner slams TJX data policy Record-breaking data leak was 'foreseeable'
• Experts fret over credit card compliance PCI DSS fails to settle SMEs
• Stats office deal sparks confidentiality fears Possible Patriot Act entanglement raises hackles

Software

• Oracle embraces old Java apps in next IDE Preview two

Software: Applications

• Microsoft: New Live Search 'as good as Google' 'And better than Yahoo!'

Software: Open Season

• Yahoo!'s insanity over Zimbra and Google's plan to rule open source code Audio Oh yes. It's Open Season